[lxc-devel] call to setup_dev_symlinks with lxc.autodev

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting William Dauchy (william at gandi.net):
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to not execute setup_dev_symlinks. In my case I'm
> using lxc-start with a read only filesystem.
> so:
> !lxc_conf->is_execute && setup_dev_symlinks(&lxc_conf->rootfs))
> will probably fail
> 
> I saw there was:
>                ret = symlink(d->oldpath, path);
>                if (ret && errno != EEXIST) { }
> but in my case I need to manually access the /dev directory in order to
> make it return EEXIST.
> 
> I was wondering if we could avoid setup_dev_symlinks call in case of
> autodev = 0 for example?

Dwight, what do you think about simply not erroring out if we have
an error calling setup_dev_symlinks()?

-serge